Kendal Broad

Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies and Gender Research

Degrees

Ph.D. Sociology Washington State University, 1998

Areas of Interest

Sexualities

Qualitative/Feminist Methodologies

Intersectionality

Social Movements

Research

In general my research focuses primarily on analyzing interpretive and identity work, especially in relation to gender, race, sexuality and social movements. Presently I am conducting research about anti-racist work by gay men.

Biography

K.L Broad has a PhD in Sociology (1998) from Washington State University and is currently an Associate Professor, jointly-appointed with the Department of Sociology and the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. Dr. Broad’s research focuses primarily on analyzing interpretive and identity work, especially in relation to gender, race, sexuality and social movements. Presently Dr. Broad is working on two research projects:

1) tracing how gay men in the 1980s contructed their anti-racist work, and

2) mapping the rhetorical contests about LGBTQ families in the US today